Sunday, October 12, 2008

I had one more mini to paint, a mini Zagoran, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with him. While waiting for the Eagles game I watched one of my favorite MST3K episodes- Godzilla versus Megalon and it came to me how I was going to paint the Zag. It was simple, it was all in the smile.

Ever since I got KT Solid Bakobas on a whim I've wanted to paint some more Gargamel Minis... well, I managed to snag a few more and I'm loving these little guys. I was so enthused about these guys that I painted 3 of them in one day! They just have so much character. It's psyching me up for the Gargamel swap which should be wrapping up at skullbrain.org soon. Hopefully I'll have more opportunities to paint more in the future!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

I was thinking about scorpions the other day (doesn't everyone?) and how some dull looking scorpions are florescent when under UV light. I wanted to try something in that vein, to see just what my florescent V-Color could do. The only thing I wish was that there was a florescent blue available. Hope you like it.

Halloween is coming, so here's some customs to get you in the spirit. The Obake sheet started out as just a piece to test some techniques on, as I'm not a huge fan of the Obake... but by the end I quite liked the look of it.

Sometimes I'll paint, and then at the advice of others, or just through my own preference I'll change it later on in some way, hopefully as an improvement. Everything is a Work in Progress I guess, here's some of the latest updates of old favorites:

Maggie the Rangeas:beforeafter.

At the advice of Gathchabert I added some detail to the horns on my last Rangeas.

The Dreamerbeforeafter.

Again, bert suggested a bit of accent on the tips of the horns, which I think is a definite improvement.

Hypnos Skullwing:

beforeafter.

Here I was a little more drastic with the changes, dirtying and darkening it up. In the end I thin its a more sinister Skullwing.

Monday, September 29, 2008

These are the latest I've painted:The Damaged Brain I did for the Swap was really well received, so I thought I'd try a twist on it. They are similar, but different enough.

Ever since the Secret Base X Grapple collaboration was released I've been wanting to do this. I lucked out recently and scored a Sharkman so I finally got to do it! Great White Sharkman is born.Ahh the Microbrains. Initially I was just going to do each of the original 4 colors, but the reception on these guys has been so overwhelming I decided to do sets. Each set has an Orange Microbrain (everyone's favorite) and a companion. This is the 2nd set of Microbrains I've painted. The first was Orange and Yellow. The Third set is coming soon! Keep an eye out!

This was the first Cronic Piece I've had the pleasure of painting. Tripasu, a collaboration between Max Toy Co. and the aforementioned Cronic. I was really excited when I first saw images of this figure, but to be honest I wasn't as thrilled with it once I got it. So it languished for a while unpainted. Eventually I picked it back up and tried a bit of a Zoidberg colorscheme and it turned out really nice. Unfortunately it has a lot of pearly colors that don't show up as well in the pictures as I'd like. Its really one you should see in person.